The Snyder Cut was greenlit by executives at WB's corporate overlord AT&T, reportedly against the wishes of the movie studio. Ultimately, if ZSJL is successful in driving up subscriber numbers for HBO Max there will be every incentive for AT&T to continue with the 'Snyderverse' on their streaming service. Warner Bros are largely irrelevant.
Which...I doubt there will be. Honestly I don't care for Snyder's interpretation. He'd make a very good batman, but he just hasn't done superman any kind of justice (pardon the pun) - you're right, subscriber numbers
will matter, and I can't wait for it to show up on HBO max or sky atnlantic in the UK but...oh. Uh oh. Wait:
Unfortunately, UK fans may have more trouble getting their hands on the new cut, as it’s not believed HBO Max will be available in that territory.
However, Zack Snyder reassured international fans during the DC FanDome Panel, saying that he’s working on a distribution plans – “so I promise you, you’re going to get a chance to see it,” he said.
TV shows made by Warner Bros and HBO have often made their way to the UK before – including the Arrowverse superhero TV shows and Game of Thrones – so it seems likely that a deal will be struck to give UK fans a chance to watch the Snyder Cut in 2021.
Most HBO productions are broadcast in the UK via Sky Atlantic and NOW TV, but there has been no confirmation just yet about whether the Snyder Cut will follow suit.
Oh....Oh no.
I'll tell you something without any fear of repercussion - I won't be waiting til the summer or even possibly the winter to watch it. I'll be sailing the seven seas with reckless abandon where AT&T in all their...Let's call this wisdom - will make nothing on it apart from...Well not even that, because Virgin get my internet money.
Here's why, as a dichotomy disney win; they put all the pieces into place. They planned the release of disney plus YEARS before the thing actually launched, so that by the time they were ready to go global most of the content on offer was older content that most people weren't really fussed about a release schedule with, while
distribution rights were pulled back from the rights of netflix.
I actually don't think Disney
actually announced anything truly new while they were getting set up last year apart from programming, and this year it's all go with whatever they can get away with while filming around a pandemic.
Snyder Cut has been planned for...What? 2 years? 3 years? I guarantee you that it's going to sky store first; just like dune is and...whatever else they have coming because they're so myopic they didn't plan ahead and remember that there are countries outside of the US that would actually probably not mind paying for the Warner film archive on top of whatever gets offered on HBO max. it's actually almost laughable at how much incompetence both Viacom and AT&T
continue to display when it comes to handling the digital age. There is absolutely no reason -
No reason why they shouldn't be making bank, but instead they're both dying faster than the dinosaurs did when their environment turned sour on them.
This is a death throe; they're going to get eaten alive by a mega conglomerate that
does know how to handle the digital age, and understands that a lack of simultaneous global distribution IS possible now, and they're going to get stripped bear of their assets and become as irrelevant as hollywood is.
And I welcome it.